> > I have a Tyan mainboard with NVIDIA chipset CK804. The only> > SATA/IDE device is a SATA DVD combo, the harddisks are on a> > RAID controller from 3ware. The harddisks are fine.

> A dmesg and further info would be useful here. Also knowing how> much memory your system has and whether it passes memtest86.

It has 8GB RAM and passes memtest86, I had one run.

>> > So there are clearly some problems with libata in this system.>> CK804 is known to work reliably. That means we are looking for> something thats "different" about your system - perhaps the> devices, the amount of memory etc.

I managed to get it running with the SuSE kernel when passing adma=0 to sata_nv module, and I managed to get it running when passing mem=2000M to the SuSE kernel. Thanks to Robert for those hints.

The vanilla kernels I tried 2.6.23.1 and 2.6.24-rc1-git10 (with patch to sata_nv.c from Robert Hancock see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351451) seem to be very sensitive in this area. Whenever I got them to oops, I did not have much time to get anything read on the screen.

I managed under the patched 2.6.24-rc1-git10 to manually load sata_nv and sr_mod, and then I got an OOps like

I have attached 3 dmesg outputs with the openSuSE 10.3 kernel and extracts of /var/log/messages, especially some Oopses. The oopses from the vanilla kernels seem to be so bad that they do never end up in a file.

I will do some more tests as soon as possible. I have attached the files as I created them, you will have to diff the single files, anyway, to get the important information out, I cannot select for you.